The ever elusive Diaz vs. GSP fight has once again been put on the shelf following a recent announcement made by UFC president Dana White that GSP’s knee is far from healthy.
Dana stated, “GSP blown ACL will be out for 10 mos. Now Condit vs. Diaz for the interim welterweight title on Feb 4th in Las Vegas!!”
The welterweight division has had a barrage of instability starting with UFC 137 when Diaz was removed from the main event against GSP for missing two consecutive pre-fight press conferences. Following his removal, the UFC opted to put Carlos Condit in for the title and Diaz was demoted to the co-main event against BJ Penn.
It was GSP who then was forced off the card due to an injured knee damaged in training and Condit was forced to sit on the sidelines having traded his position to face BJ Penn for his own chance at the world title against GSP.
GSP vs. Condit was rescheduled and the two were set to face each other until a brash Diaz got into the head of GSP with a variety of insults which eventually prompted the champion to request to face the Stockton fighter, Nick Diaz, as soon as possible in the place of Condit.
Condit was than scheduled to face off with Josh Koscheck and Diaz with GSP in February’s main and co-main UFC 143 featured bouts. However, in this circle of top welterweights nothing ever seems to go as planned.
With the recent announcement that welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is injured and out for 10 months Condit will now face off with Diaz in the main event of UFC 143.
For this first time since Shane Carwin beat Frank Mir at UFC 111 in 2010, the organization is set to put in place an interim title in the champions extended absence. The bout will serve as the first interim title bout in nearly two years.
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Anyone that thinks that Georges or Nick are scared to fight anyone is an idiot. Georges is the most dominant welterweight of all time and Nick is a brawler that loves fighting anyone anytime. Injuries happen. Shit happens. Period.
Injuries are more common with steroid use. Gsp got hurt like 3 times in a month
Your actually linking injuries with steroid use.. are u fkn serious? Chael ..Hendo and marquardt haven’t been injured? Anderson n Bj been injured are they juicing?
you would drag bjs name through the mud to make an invalid point. shame on you.
You obviously don’t understand my madness..and I don’t have the time to explain. Your a big boy figure it out..
bj wasnt really injured when fitch dropped out he just didnt wanna move backwards in comp. thats why when he was given nick diaz he took it cuz he would have gotten gsp next. things didnt play out how he wanted but he still went for it so mad props to him, now w gsp ducking everyone ur just gonna have to see nick whoop carlos, but even then youd still be hating and cheering for the cheat greaseball mthfkr but everyone knows what kind of athletes u support, the cheaters! dont worry bro thiago silva will be back soon too so u can cheer for him harder than ever.
I support Bj to da max., is he a cheater too since that who I support? Hmmm..
Oh yeah.. I’m a huge thiago silva Fan and I hope he comes back soon.. He should get on some TRT to get back to top form and start kicking some ass again! Chhhhhiagoooo!
ouuuuuuuuu george!!! ohhh mon ami Georgie pooo i luv uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu… wiggle it for me just one more time eh* in french accent*
got your dollars ready curtis? u must like your thunder from down under eh?
I don’t think George is hurt,
I think his scared.
thats real talk right there.
fuck off. as if…
idk wat grt3000 is but i use to leave dudes in the dust with the mitsu gt3000.
it’s a tachyon propelled LS Rocket designed exclusively for interstellar travel. oh yeah…it’s fast.
sounds like it!
Does this guy fake injuries or what?
Yeah this is BS!!… I wonder if they’ll cut his knee open to make it look like he actually did have surgery or maybe they’ll just tattoo a scare on his knee and not even do surgery…. Moron
What a drag Donny,look at the bright side bro….most normal men with this type of injury generally take10/12 months to heal, George’s will be ready in 6/8 ready topick up where he left off, no worries GSP fans no worries!
Lucky for Diaz, he might actually do something against Condit, that’s a big MIGHT… but I still have Carlos ftw.
will see how wants it more
diaz or condit
Get better champ…you have a lot of haters you need to disprove AGAIN.
10 FUKN 4
GSP would earn 3-4 million for a fight with Diaz. Why the hell would he not take that fight? Your an idiot if you think either fighter is scared of the other. GSP has a lot of haters on here because of his boring fight style, but the problem is that they arent realistic. A lot of the guys on here ride Diaz nuts way too much and dont look at the reality that he has never beat a top 5 fighter in his entire career. GSP vs Diaz is going to be the same outcome as GSP vs Hardy. Everybody said Hardy was going to knock out GSP and Hardy got dominated the entire fight. The same will happen to Diaz. GSP is way too strong and way too explosive for Diaz to be able to do anything with. GSP may or may not finish the fight but he will for sure contorl the fight and make the fight happen wherever he wants. Get a reality check the best fighter Diaz has beat is Paul Daley which is nowhere near a UFC title contender.
Just imagine the hype they will build for the interim champ vs GSP when he returns.
gsp is returning? i just figured when he made the announcement of his return to mma he would just say he was injured a few weeks after.
what a chicken shit bok bok champ ,probly more scared of diazs antics outside and in the cage more then loosing…relinguish your title so real men can fight for fucksake
Condit will lose to Diaz… Before GSP got injured the second time I believed he was going to smash Diaz. Now I think his cardio will unfortunately be inferior to Diaz as a result of 10 month ring rust making this GSP’s hardest fight of his career. He will now be obligated to use his wrestling to win. I hope his sleeping dragon awakens and KOs the “Stockton Slapper.”
A torn ACL is a pretty serious injury. I wish GSPa speedy recovery.